Definition of "hard drive" []

• A disk drive that reads data stored on hard disks. Also called hard disk drive. (noun)

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• "If you wait to buy a computer with a hard drive that can hold 10 gigabytes, the 40-gigabyte model will come out six weeks later."
• "“We added the phones to the dump,” Reese said, “and the Klub Kashmir hard drive in the subpoena.”"
• "One recently developed HDTV camera, the Thomson Viper FilmStream, sports 9-megapixel (millions of pixels) CCDs (charged coupled devices, a silicon-based chip image technology), but must record the massive amounts of image data on a portable hard drive disk array, not videotape."